President Obama and the Democrats saved the Economy; the Republicans tried to kill it and now they shamelessly want to take credit for the recovery.

Of course, McConnell isn’t just wrong about the timing of the accelerating Obama recovery, which in the second and third quarters of 2014 had ramped up long before a GOP takeover of the Senate seemed likely. As it turns, the Republican Party deserves zero credit for the improving American economy. Make that less than zero.

After all, from their opposition to the stimulus, the auto industry rescue, and the fed’s “quantitative easing,” to their debt-ceiling hostage-taking and draconian austerity policies in Washington and the States, Republicans have been undermining the economic recovery from the moment Barack Obama first took the oath of office.